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2 Verizon Communications Three Key Business Units Communications services for consumer and small business Building one of the most advanced broadband networks Handling 1+B* calls a day with 99.99% reliability Serving 30M U.S. households Mobile services for U.S. consumer and business Nation’s most reliable wireless network Highest in customer loyalty Nearly 55M customers Global Solutions for large business and government Created by merger of Verizon and MCI in January 2006 Most connected IP Backbone Serving 94% of Fortune 500 *Average number of calls handled each business day.

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12 Taiwan Earthquake Verizon Performance Taiwan Earthquake – 12/26/06 –Earthquake of magnitude 7.2 –Unprecedented 20 cuts on 8 cables –Isolation of Taiwan from the Public IP and Data networks PIP Continued to Operate at Full Capacity Public IP & Data Restored as much as 24 hours Earlier than other Carriers –Restoration with backhaul & SMW-4 within the first night –Leveraged Partnerships to obtain additional capacity Epicenter

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22 Secure Information Portal How to provide: »Assured authentication »File and data security »Capability for sending sensitive data »Security for mobile devices (PDA’s) How to allow: Secure Intra/Inter Agency or Coalition/Allied Collaboration How to ensure: Data Integrity and Non-Repudiation Non-repudiation is the concept of ensuring that a contract, especially one agreed to via the Internet, cannot later be denied by one of the parties involved.contractInternet